Thousands of long Covid patients across the globe are urging their governments to provide more help for the growing number of people facing lingering symptoms after infection
New research suggests there are hundreds of millions of people likely suffering from long Covid. | Getty Images.
“We are just left to rot,” said Chantal Britt, founder and president of Long Covid Switzerland. “That’s why all those organizations are popping up: There is no official help.”Some studies suggest long Covid could affect as much as 30 percent of people who are infected — a fact that is not often publicly discussed when governments talk about which preventive measures are appropriate at this stage of the pandemic.
“In terms of government … I don’t even think it’s even being discussed,” said Wachuka Gichohi, a long Covid advocate in Kenya who started the Long Covid Kenya Support Group on Facebook. Governments have pointed to the circumstances that have made action difficult: little comprehensive evidence about the cause of the disease and few proven cures. And many countries don’t have the resources to try to address long Covid, while also dealing with new infections and making up for lost time fighting diseases, such as tuberculosis, HIV and malaria.
“It seems that there is a political cost of the pandemic, a cost that most governments are unwilling to bear,” Cesar Medina, a leader of one of Mexico’s long Covid advocacy groups, said in a WhatsApp message. The concern isn’t just for people who have long Covid. Advocates have said it’s irresponsible to not discuss the threat the little-understood syndrome poses to the population — especially as the number of cumulative infections grows, fueled by increasingly contagious variants.
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